"An impediment to living life": why and how should we measure stiffness in polymyalgia rheumatica? by Sarah Louise Mackie, Rodney Hughes, Margaret Walsh, John Day, Marion Newton, Colin Pease, John Kirwan, Marianne Morris

“…Assessing function may be a pragmatic solution to difficulties in quantifying stiffness.…”
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Accounting for asymmetries in cleft sentence use by Bianca Maria De Paolis, Cecilia Andorno, Sandra Benazzo

“…However, other factors contribute to differing receptions of asymmetries in L2, including acquisitional phenomena such as the predominance of communicative need and the difficulty in incorporating the functional parameter.   …”
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Sur les esters phosphoriques by Emile Cherbuliez

“…The rather complicated aspect of the change of the rate of hydrolysis as a function of pH, as well as the mounting difficulty of hydrolysis when passing from a triester (neutral), to diester (dialkylphosphoric acid) to monoester (monoalkylphosphoric acid) can now be explained. …”
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New hydrocarbon degradation pathways in the microbial metagenome from Brazilian petroleum reservoirs. by Isabel Natalia Sierra-García, Javier Correa Alvarez, Suzan Pantaroto de Vasconcellos, Anete Pereira de Souza, Eugenio Vaz dos Santos Neto, Valéria Maia de Oliveira

“…Metagenomics is a valuable tool to investigate the genetic and functional diversity of previously uncultured microorganisms in natural environments. …”
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Generalization to d-dimensions of a fermionic path integral for exact enumeration of polygons on hypercubic lattices by M. Ostilli, G. W. C. Rocha, C. G. Bezerra, G. M. Viswanathan

“…On the one hand, this new result admittedly brings us no closer to the problem of finding an explicit analytic expression for the desired generating function for polygons. On the other hand, however, the significant advance reported here precisely quantifies the remarkable mathematical difficulty of finding the explicit generating function. …”
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An exchange rate model where the fundamentals follow a jump-diffusion process by Jean René Cupidon, Judex Hyppolite

“…This approach leads to the branch of differential equations called functional differential equations and more specifically the so-called delay differential equations. …”
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Title not available by Bok, Julien

“…Based on a remark by John von Neumann about the difficulty of managing N people, which suggests that it arises essentially from 2-to-2 interactions, we define a “difficulty” function of an organization. …”
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MAIN EYEOLOGICAL FACTORS OF KSEROSTOMY by N.O. Ryabushko, V.M. Dvornik

“…Functional deficiency can be inverse and irreversible. …”
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Security evaluation of coal mine industrial control systems based on CVSS v4.0 by Jianzhen Zhang, Jing Wen, Yanjun Qi

“…The asset value dimension of ICS considers factors such as equipment type, functional importance, and data sensitivity. The attack difficulty dimension considers the technical knowledge, resources required by the attacker, and the complexity of the attack. …”
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Effects of startle on cognitive performance and physiological activity revealed by fNIRS and thermal imaging by Flora Schwartz, Jonathan Deniel, Mickaël Causse

“…Brain activity and facial skin temperature were measured in 34 participants using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and functional infrared thermal imaging (fITI), respectively. …”
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A Mass‐Conserving‐Perceptron for Machine‐Learning‐Based Modeling of Geoscientific Systems by Yuan‐Heng Wang, Hoshin V. Gupta

“…Abstract Although decades of effort have been devoted to building Physical‐Conceptual (PC) models for predicting the time‐series evolution of geoscientific systems, recent work shows that Machine Learning (ML) based Gated Recurrent Neural Network technology can be used to develop models that are much more accurate. However, the difficulty of extracting physical understanding from ML‐based models complicates their utility for enhancing scientific knowledge regarding system structure and function. …”
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Are probiotics useful in the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation in adults? A review of existing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and recommendations by Mikołaj Kamiński, Karolina Skonieczna-Żydecka, Igor Łoniewski, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Wojciech Marlicz

“…The pathophysiology is complex and poorly understood, with evidence accumulating that gut microbiota can be implicated in the development and function of the enteric nervous system. Gut bacteria modulate gut barrier function, short chain fatty acid synthesis, and bile acid metabolism, factors which play roles in the gut peristalsis regulation. …”
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Using multiple representations to improve student understanding of quantum states by Emily Marshman, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh

“…Many advanced students in upper-level undergraduate and graduate quantum mechanics courses have difficulty translating state vectors in Dirac notation to wave functions in the position or momentum representation and vice versa. …”
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Uniqueness of Positive Solutions to Non-Local Problems of Brézis–Oswald Type Involving Hardy Potentials by Yun-Ho Kim

“…The main feature of this paper is solving the difficulty that arises in the presence of a singular coefficient and in the lack of the semicontinuity property of an energy functional associated with the relevant problem. …”
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Desmoid Fibromatosis of the Triceps and Sternocleidomastoid-A Report of Two Cases by Shenbaghavalli Thanikaimalai, Rujuta Mehta, Leena Patwardhan

“…Case Report: We present two cases of gradually progressing soft tissue tumors posing significant deformity with functional restrictions, at unusual sites where diagnosis was delayed causing difficulty and loss of function. …”
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Targeted Engagement of the Action Selection Network during Task-Oriented Arm Training after Stroke by Jill Campbell Stewart, Kaci Handlery, Jessica F. Baird, Erika L. Blanck, Geetanjali Pathak, Stacy L. Fritz

“…Gains in motor function were also found in all three participants, especially on patient-reported measures of perceived difficulty and confidence to complete upper extremity functional tasks. …”
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Rehabilitation of the knee following ACL repair and reconstruction: A review of clinical best practices by Muhammad Daffa Haidar, Rizki Mulyawan, Julian Dewantara, Joanna Michalina Jurek

“…ACL reconstruction is the surgical replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament with a tissue graft to restore knee function. To avoid problems including edema, loss of range of motion, muscle weakness, poor balance, and recovery of knee function, rehabilitation treatment should be performed after surgery. …”
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Sport-Orthopädie by Kraus K, Doyscher R, 3, Schütz E

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Development of a rapid screener through network analysis to identify central cognitive complaints in haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study by Konstadina Griva, Behram A Khan, Frederick H F Chan, Pearl Sim, Phoebe X H Lim, Jason C J Choo

“…The Patient’s Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI) is a comprehensive questionnaire that assesses patient-reported difficulties in memory, language, motor/sensory-perceptual skills and higher-level cognitive function. …”
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Dynamic tightrope fixation for the correction of the 1,2 intermetatarsal angle in hallux valgus surgery by Samuel Ka-Kin Ling, Jojo Hoi-Ching Lai, Esther Man-Wai Chow, Lucci Lugee Liyeung, Arthur On-Fai Woo, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung

“…This study aims to review the radiological and functional outcomes of hallux valgus reconstruction with IMA closure using mini-tightrope suture buttons. …”
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